Emil Thormählen

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Emil Thormählen (born May 24, 1859 in Moorhusen , Holstein; † April 1, 1941 in Bad Kreuznach ) was a German architect who also worked as a teacher at various technical schools.

Life

Emil Thormählen grew up in Holstein and went to school in Hamburg. Here he attended the school for builders in 1876/1877. From 1877 he studied architecture at the Technical University of Hanover and then moved to the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . In Hanover he became a member of the Corps Ostfalia in 1882 . In 1881 he worked in the office of the Royal Building Inspector Haesecke, where he was involved in work on the Berlin city train stations at Alexanderplatz and Friedrichstrasse . He also gave drawing lessons at the building trade school of the Berliner Handwerkerverein. From 1883 he worked as a teacher at the State Drawing Academy in Hanau . In 1889 he also took over the management of the commercial advanced training school in Hanau. In 1897 he was appointed director of the Magdeburg School of Applied Arts . Under his leadership, the Magdeburg Institute became a “reform school” within the meaning of the Deutscher Werkbund , of which he had been a member since 1907. Employees included the architects Albin Müller and Rudolf Rütschi, the painters Max Köppen , Paul Lang, Paul Bürck and Ferdinand Nigg as well as the ceramists Hans and Fritz von Heider.

Due to his good reputation, he was called to Cologne in 1910 and appointed director of the Cologne School of Applied Arts (the later Cologne Werkschulen ).

In 1919 he retired and moved with the family to the winery of his wife Else (née Altenkirch), an arts and crafts teacher and sister of Alexe Altenkirch , in Bad Kreuznach an der Nahe. Here he worked as a winemaker until his death. The sculptor and art historian Ludwig Thormaehlen and the inventor Klaus Thormaehlen are his sons. His daughter Dora Thormählen was a talented art bookbinder and student of Franz Weisse. She died in 1921 at the age of 29.

literature

  • Matthias Puhle (ed.), Norbert Eiseold: The School of Applied Arts and Crafts Magdeburg 1793–1963. Magdeburg Museums, Magdeburg 1993, ISBN 3-930030-01-2 , p. 52.

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